Patents by Inventor James Utzschneider

James Utzschneider has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Authorization token accompanying request and including constraint tied to request
    Patent number: 7177847
    Abstract: A business relationship is effectuated between a first party and a second party and is governed by an agreement between the first party and the second party. The first party creates a token that authorizes a delegate to request a transaction according to the agreement on behalf of the first party, specifies in the token at least one constraint on a transaction requested by the delegate on behalf of the first party, and provides the token to the delegate. The delegate sends to the second party the token and a transaction document requesting a transaction according to the agreement. The second party applies each constraint in the token against the transaction document to determine whether the transaction document satisfies each constraint. If so, the transaction document is accepted for fulfillment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert George Atkinson, Marc Levy, James Utzschneider
  • Company modeling
    Publication number: 20060200489
    Abstract: A company is compared to a generic company model to identify differences between the company and the generic company model. The generic company model includes a work model that describes sequences of tasks that form processes performed within a generic company and a persona model that describes generic personas in the generic company and tasks that each generic persona performs. The differences between the generic company model and the company are used to modify the generic company model to form a company-specific model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Lowe, Kathlyn Gallines, Peter Johannsen, Samantha Britney, Finn Rode, Thomas Jensen, Jakob Nielsen, Cary Rohwer, Robert Edmiston, James Utzschneider, Susan Bohn
  • Authorization token accompanying request and including constraint tied to request
    Publication number: 20040073518
    Abstract: A business relationship is effectuated between a first party and a second party and is governed by an agreement between the first party and the second party. The first party creates a token that authorizes a delegate to request a transaction according to the agreement on behalf of the first party, specifies in the token at least one constraint on a transaction requested by the delegate on behalf of the first party, and provides the token to the delegate. The delegate sends to the second party the token and a transaction document requesting a transaction according to the agreement. The second party applies each constraint in the token against the transaction document to determine whether the transaction document satisfies each constraint. If so, the transaction document is accepted for fulfillment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Robert George Atkinson, Marc Levy, James Utzschneider